0 a gene that is found in one of two or more different forms in the same position in a chromosome, and so produces a particular characteristic that can be different for different people, such as eye colour -- 等位基因，對偶基因（位於一對同源染色體的相同位置上控制某一性狀的不同形態的基因）
For this analysis, rare alleles were combined, thereby reducing a total of 124 alleles over the six microsatellites down to 49 allele classes.
It describes the dynamics of a wild-type allele and its variants, derived by mutation, for an infinitely large population.
In microsatellites, repeat sequences of different lengths at a given locus are referred to as alleles and co-dominance is observed.
In the four remaining polymorphisms, the rare allele is at most present in three sequences out of 20.
Similarly, we did not perform sub-analyses of the e2 allele due to its relatively small frequency across age groups in the population.
The same set of simulations also yielded allele numbers and diversity (expected heterozygosity) values at the neutral locus under the infinite alleles model.
This is an artefact due to the particular combination of allele frequency distribution and error model adopted in the simulations.
The age of an allele is the time since it arose by mutation.
